The Metropolitan Area and the region lie exactly on the convergence of international trunk transport corridors running from Scandinavia and North-Eastern Europe to Southern Europe and the Mediterranean Sea in one direction, and from the northern part of Western Europe to Eastern Europe.
The grid of the existing international and national roads links the region to: Southern Europe via the Czech Republic and Slovakia (E-75, E-77, and national roads Nos. 1 and 7), Eastern Europe via Kaliningrad (E-22, national road No. 22), and Western Europe via Germany (E-28, national road No. 6). The network of regional and local roads serves transport within the region and metropolitan area.
The A1 motorway in construction is of strategic importance for the development of the Metropolitan Area. Linking the region to southern Poland and Europe, the road will offer the shortest route from Scandinavia down south the continent and onwards towards the East, along the VI European transport corridor.
